An Arm Across Our Windshield

To start my story off I must first tell you that I was about ten years old
when this happened, and both of my parents were witness to this
mysterious event. I've spent the past twenty years trying to figure out how
to define what happened to us that night.

In Montana it's quite common to mark fatalities on the highway with tiny
crosses that remain there for many years after the accident. This particular
night my parents and I were driving from Bozeman to Helena while I was
looking out the window for 6 crosses (an unusually large number). I didn't
know exactly where they were, but suddenly I got this feeling that something
"bad" was going to happen. I told my parents this and their reply was what
you would typically tell a ten year old, "don't worry... everything is
fine."

About five minutes later I had the same feeling and I told them again, to
which I got the same reply. A very short time later, as I was still looking
out for the 6 crosses, a man stepped out onto the side of the road and put
his entire arm across our windshield. The strangest thing is that we
all heard it very clearly (which has puzzled me for years). I assumed it was
a spirit but obviously it had mass. My father immediately stopped the car
and got out to see if he was alright, but found nothing whatsoever. Had this
been a living person there would have been blood or something (we were
traveling eighty miles an hour). Anyway, we drove into Helena and called the
police (surprisingly, they also found nothing). I have spent twenty years
trying to find a logical reason, supernatural or not, and have a number of
theories. If anyone else would like to share theirs I would gratefully
appreciate it.